Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,849 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Clarence Thomas (1948- )
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Timothy Scott (1965- )
Virden, Illinois, ca. 1900
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Virden, Illinois Race Riot (1898)
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Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915)

Explore Global African History

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Juba, South Sudan (1922- )
Labor Day March Commemorating the Burma Road Riot
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1942 Burma Road Riot, Bahamas
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Nottingham Riots (1958)
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(1962) Nelson Mandela, “Address at the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa”

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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“Mad Men” in Black: African Americans in the Twentieth Century U.S. Advertising Industry
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Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II
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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System
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Remembrance in the Cemetery: In Search of “The Accidental Slaveowner”

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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11/26/2021 – Executive Director – Seattle, Washington